Born:

September 27, 1885, Hadersleben, Nordschleswig

Died:

1959, Hamburg

German sea captain who in 1939 attempted to save 906 German Jews, who were passengers on his ship, MS St. Louis

Mentioned in

• Fritz Buff’s Account of His Journey on the St. Louis (1939)
• “Swept back into the unseen vastness of the sea” - Fritz Buff’s account of his voyage aboard the ST. LOUIS, May and June 1939 (Matthias Loeber)